Willem V Bastiaens

6462859, Oct 8, 2002

Oct 4, 2000

09/678191

Willem V. Bastiaens - Medina MN
Rolf W. Biernath - Wyoming MN
Mark P. Dolan - Hudson WI
Lori P. Engle - Little Canada MN
Patrick R. Fleming - Lake Elmo MN
Robert J. Wolf - Woodbury MN

3M Innovative Properties Company - St. Paul MN

G02B 2600

359296, 359298, 345107, 428323, 428331

Assemblies containing a substrate with pockets for electromagnetically responsive particles can be made for a variety of uses, including, for example, display media, lenses, and color-changing fabric. The arrangement of these pockets can be selected to provide higher particle density than previously realized. The assembly includes an assembly substrate, particles, and a top coat layer.

8220932, Jul 17, 2012

Jan 8, 2010

12/684565

Yufeng Liu - Woodbury MN, US
Encai Hao - Woodbury MN, US
David T. Yust - Woodbury MN, US
Lan H. Liu - Rosemount MN, US
Frederick J. Gustafson - Bloomington MN, US
Willem V. Bastiaens - Medina MN, US
Yu Yang - Eden Prairie MN, US

3M Innovative Properties Company - St. Paul MN

G03B 21/26
G03B 21/28
G03B 21/56
G03B 21/60
G02B 27/14
G02F 1/1335
H01K 1/26
F21V 9/14
B43L 1/00

353 29

A communication article and system comprising a writing member having a dry erasable front surface and a projection member is disclosed. The projection member includes an asymmetric optical diffuser that scatters light in a first direction with a first viewing angle A, and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction with a second viewing angle A. The ratio A/Ais at least about 2.

20060091028, May 4, 2006

Oct 29, 2004

10/976674

Willem Bastiaens - Medina MN, US
Craig Thompson - Inver Grove Heights MN, US
Gregory Anderson - Stillwater MN, US

B65D 85/57
B65D 71/00
B65D 69/00
B65D 85/575

206307100, 206232000

The invention is an article comprising a housing having a bottom wall and a top wall supportively engaged to the top wall. The top wall defines a slot extending through the top wall for sheet material. A voice recorder is secured to the housing. In one embodiment of the invention, a stack of sheet material is positioned within the housing. The stack includes plurality of vertically aligned sheets of material which are releasably adhered to each other along opposite edges of successive sheets by a narrow band of pressure-sensitive adhesive. A first sheet of material is capable of passing through the slot in the top wall of the housing. In a second embodiment of the invention, sheet material disposed in a roll is positioned within the housing. A continuous stripe of a narrow band of pressure-sensitive adhesive is disposed generally proximate to one longitudinal edge of the sheet material. A transverse edge of the sheet material is capable of passing through the slot in the top wall of the housing. In an additional embodiment, the voice recorder is releasably attached to the dispenser housing. In yet another embodiment, the voice recorder formed integrally in the housing.

20130164730, Jun 27, 2013

Jun 21, 2011

13/806056

Frederick J. Gustafson - Bloomington MN, US
Naiyong Jing - Woodbury MN, US
Justin A. Riddle - St. Paul MN, US
Willem V. Bastiaens - Scandia MN, US

3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY - ST. PAUL MN

B43L 1/00

434408

Articles with rewritable writing surfaces thereon comprising a coating of hydrophilic silane or a hydrophilic water soluble polymer with hydroxyl groups which is crosslinked or chemically reacted to the surface. Also, methods for making such articles and methods for using such articles.

55492673, Aug 27, 1996

Jan 10, 1994

8/179610

June M. Armbruster - River Falls WI
Willem V. Bastiaens - Medina MN
Joseph P. Callahan - St. Paul MN
Steve W. Moris - Woodbury MN
David W. Stegink - Mendota Heights MN

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN

B41J 1102

2484422

A frame assembly for use on a device such a computer monitor having a front viewed surface surrounded by a housing. The frame assembly includes a stiff frame having generally planar front and rear surfaces that includes elongate border portions having inner edge surfaces that define an opening through the frame corresponding in shape to the front viewed surface. The rear surface of the frame can be attached along the front surface of the housing with the opening in the frame aligned with the front viewed surface, and a layer of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive adhered to the frame is accessible along the front surface of the frame so that sheets of paper and other objects can be releasably adhered thereto. The frame assembly can be supplied as a part of a composite that can provide other separable smaller bulletin boards or frames that also can have pressure sensitive adhesive accessible along their front surfaces.

57553564, May 26, 1998

Apr 15, 1996

8/632252

Willem V. Bastiaens - Medina MN
Joseph P. Callahan - St. Paul MN
David C. Windorski - Woodbury MN
Timothy A. Jacobs - Maple Grove MN

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company - St. Paul MN

B65H 100

221 33

A sheet dispenser including a housing, and a stack of dispensable sheets. A front wall of housing has edges that define a slot through which an end portion of the top sheet on the stack projects. That front wall normally projects above the top surface of the stack of sheets to position that end portion of the top sheet in a position projecting above an outer surface of the front wall where it can be easily grasped to withdraw the top sheet from the housing. At least a portion of the front wall is of flexible material so that it can be resiliently bent to lie along the top surface of the stack and thereby reduce the thickness of the dispenser when, for example, it is positioned on one of the pages of a book, magazine, personal organizer or the like that is closed.

20180022146, Jan 25, 2018

Oct 2, 2017

15/722929

- St. Paul MN, US
Naiyong Jing - Saint Paul MN, US
Justin A. Riddle - Saint Paul MN, US
Willem V. Bastiaens - Scandia MN, US

B43L 1/00

Articles comprising a coating of hydrophilic silane. Also, methods for making such articles and methods for using such articles.

20150213310, Jul 30, 2015

Apr 13, 2015

14/685174

- St. Paul MN, US
David M. Mahli - Woodbury MN, US
Cristin E. Moran - St. Paul MN, US
Guruprasad Somasundaram - Minneapolis MN, US
Willem V. Bastiaens - Scandia MN, US
Richard J. Moore - Maplewood MN, US
Pontus Axelsson - Stockholm, SE
Michael Rotstein - Stockholm, SE
Roland Persson - Stockholm, SE
Linus Åkerlund - Johanneshov, SE
Tasuku Nakayama - Kanagawa, JP

G06K 9/00
G06T 11/20
G06K 9/62

Techniques are described for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes. A computing device is described that includes a processor and an image collection module executable on the processor and configured to receive an input image of an environment having a plurality of physical notes. An image processing engine executable on the processor is configured to identify the plurality of physical notes in the input image and generate, for each of the physical notes, a corresponding digital note. The image processing engine is further configured to identify an indication of one or more groups of the plurality of identified notes in the input image and group the plurality of digital notes according to the indication.